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2004 Sep 10
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Compressing sound fonts with FLAC
...ssion used on
the internet for sound fonts, unfortunately its not open. For the most
part, in my tests, sfArk beats FLAC in compression, but thats not
surprising as I am compressing entire sound fonts which include
non-audio data as well. The average compression ratio for 8 fonts of
various sizes:
sflac: 0.592
sfArk: 0.536
FLAC seems to be slightly faster (although I am running sfArk through
wine), total time for 8 files:
sflac: 12.81 seconds
sfArk: 13.7 seconds
I stripped out all non-audio data from a few fonts (which doesn't
usually amount to much, 50k in a font with a lot of
preset/inst...